We’re proud to bring you the second issue of our newsletter. In this edition, we’ll share details about Alnitech’s
Servers & Infrastructure and teach you how you can remotely access your Supermicro servers via the BMC web interface and via the IPMItool.

The recent report on 1.2B login credentials stolen also had us thinking on how we can create better passwords so we’ve prepared a feature on password best practices.

Intel is also releasing their third generation of Xeon E5-2600 this quarter. Find out what specs experts are predicting the new line-up will have at the last section of this newsletter.

Alnitech specializes in enterprise-grade dedicated and virtual servers, including systems management.
Our unmetered bandwidth connects our reliable and high-performing servers to meet the demands of your growing businesses anywhere you are in the world.
More about our infrastructure and datacenter facilities here.

Identity theft is one of the biggest issues faced when securing data. Keep your data out of the hands of cybercriminals.
Usernames and passwords are the first, and sometimes final, gatekeepers to your data—passwords, especially, need to be strong and withstand the initial onslaught of a malicious attack.

The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) serves as a bridge that relays system information mostly for monitoring purposes.
Supermicro servers’ IPMI can be configured using BIOS through a VGA console, IPMICFG (Supermicro proprietary tool), or an open-source utility called IPMItool.

IPMI is typically handled by a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), which resides inside your server.
BMC has access to things like fan speed, power control, system event logs, serial-over-LAN (SOL), and a fully functional graphic KVM console, which is typically the Java™-implemented iKVM.

Find out how you can control your Supermicro servers via the BMC Web Interface here.

A new generation of the Haswell-EP family of Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 microprocessors is expected to launch this quarter.
Pundits have already started speculating on the features of the upcoming Xeon E5-2600 v3 and have even gone so far as to list model numbers with their corresponding specifications
including operating frequency, number of cores, size of L3 cache, and thermal design power (TDP).